What could a depressed soldier, a bloodthirsty journalist, a strange dog, a writer in the making, a depressive commissioner, a hitman, a stripper a...
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Mar 26, 2009
Chris
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Cover artist, so maybe a little biased. But not much. This novel deserves EVERY positive word uttered about it.
It's a book unlike any I've ever read before. The 3-part presentation; the way the characters live & interact within & across those 3 parts; the author's writing style- his voice. I honestly don't recall an author's voice drawing such attention to itself while reading any other book. Unique, yes, but also so confident & self-assured. And with good reason.
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It's a book unlike any I've ever read before. The 3-part presentation; the way the characters live & interact within & across those 3 parts; the author's writing style- his voice. I honestly don't recall an author's voice drawing such attention to itself while reading any other book. Unique, yes, but also so confident & self-assured. And with good reason.
I do hop More...
Apr 11, 2009
Liviu
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This is just a plain weird but mesmeric book made out of three independent but interconnected novellas all taking places in a modern but "fantastic" city named Babylon which is a mixture of Paris and some US metropolis - at least this is how I "got"it, but the book is weird enough to have missed some subtle signals and I plan at least one reread.
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Apr 07, 2009
Stephen
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The first part of this trilogy of novellas is The Birth of Television According to Buddha. Though not overtly science-fictional, it reminds me a bit of Warren Ellis's Transmetropolitan in tone and subject matter, and in its attempts to make sense of - or at least catalogue - a world that's utterly confusing. I loved the short chapters, which broke what could have been quite a difficult book up into nicely manageable pieces.
It was interesting to read this on the Sony Reader (the publi More...
It was interesting to read this on the Sony Reader (the publi More...
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Sep 29, 2009
Jason
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(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted here illegally.)
Of all the ways that I discover the various books that I end up reviewing here, perhaps my favorite is when an author I already admire will recommend to me an author they admire; and that's not only because these authors and I tend to share the same tastes, but also because these authors te More...
Of all the ways that I discover the various books that I end up reviewing here, perhaps my favorite is when an author I already admire will recommend to me an author they admire; and that's not only because these authors and I tend to share the same tastes, but also because these authors te More...
Oct 27, 2010
Matthew
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Sébastien Doubinsky is one of those gloriously frustrating individuals who, in my selfish stupor, seem to exist in order to make you feel inadequate. Born in France, then spending some time in the US, moving back to France and then moving to Denmark, he has work penned in multiple languages. This is where the inadequacy sets in – he’s his own translator! Glancing at his bibliography, I’m presented with a tantilising list of titles in both French and Danish that I’ll NEVER get to read. Instead, I
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